tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post1353278908579369610..comments2015-03-28T11:56:36.821-04:00Comments on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: Tribute to Ira Harry Huehn WW1 Soldier in PPCLILorine McGinnis Schulzenoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-30177751918023436552014-10-28T07:49:03.729-04:002014-10-28T07:49:03.729-04:00Tom, I am pleased you found Ira&#39;s blog post an...Tom, I am pleased you found Ira&#39;s blog post and thank you for sharing his letter. It is so sad to think of all those lost liveLorine McGinnis Schulzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-55115742401494830232014-10-27T09:39:03.365-04:002014-10-27T09:39:03.365-04:00Ira&#39;s letter to his Cousin Edith ...
January ...Ira&#39;s letter to his Cousin Edith ...<br /><br />January 24/16<br /><br />Dear Cousin Edith: -<br />Was very glad on arriving back at Camp to-day to find a letter from you in my mail. I was lucky to-day received five, and you will have to pardon me if I don&#39;t write as long a one as I received from you as you see all I receive I have to answer and I have quite a correspondence and then too I can&#39;t tell you any news as the Miltary Postal Laws are very strict and any information or news to the outside world would be severely punished, such as telling you how many troops there are here or how many batteries of guns or how large the guns are or where I am now, so you can see there is not much I can tell you. I am quite well an dmy operation of last Summer doesn&#39;t bother me at all. I was weighed lately and am 159. a good weight for me. France is a nice country truly the people seem so funny and such odd houses and horses pull such huge loads in this country on such odd wagons. I could sure write a small book on what I have seen. However I&#39;ll have to wait till I see you and then it will be easier telling you than writing.<br /><br />2nd sheet<br />I can imagine what a good time you had at Xmas. It was a Xmas for me which I will never forget. Xmas in France in a camp and among a strange people and whose language I can&#39;t understand or talk, believe me it was something to remember.<br /><br />Tell George Bramm for me that I received his cakes and thank him for me. I seem to think I wrote him but I&#39;m not sure. my mind isn&#39;t as clear as it was.<br /><br />This certainly is an awful war. I wish the people of Canada could be in France for an hour and see what the war means to this country.<br /><br />Believe me there is no one wishes this war was over more than the soldier who is engaged in it. but I guess there will be &quot;something doing&quot; this Spring and then we shall see.<br /><br />Remember me to all the Berlin folks and sometime ago I rec&#39;d a huge box of bon-bons and I want to thank whoever sent them very much. they were delicious and very much appreciated. Will write soon again <br /><br />your loving cousin<br />Ira<br /><br />Please excuse any errors or omissions as I am not reading this over. Tom Reitznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-77931699071737553892014-10-27T09:15:07.153-04:002014-10-27T09:15:07.153-04:00Ira is my 2nd cousin, twice removed ... not a clos...Ira is my 2nd cousin, twice removed ... not a close relationship. But in 1916 he send two post cards and one letter to his Cousin Edith - who was my Great Aunt. Edith kept a scrap book which includes Ira&#39;s post cards and letter from France, plus copies of the correspondence from the military to Ira&#39;s mother upon his death.Tom Reitznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-14595249492075716752012-05-09T18:27:22.528-04:002012-05-09T18:27:22.528-04:00A wonderful tribute. Thank you for sharing.A wonderful tribute. Thank you for sharing.Michellehttp://www.exploringthebranches.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-82245649773149137002012-05-09T10:47:48.368-04:002012-05-09T10:47:48.368-04:00A lovely tribute to Ira.A lovely tribute to Ira.Anglers Resthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11368170005503879489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-71849902180459759692012-05-08T15:00:58.868-04:002012-05-08T15:00:58.868-04:00In the second book published by the Bank of Commer...In the second book published by the Bank of Commerce, also at the Internet Archive, there is a short biography of Ira on page 215:<br />Letters from the front. Being a record of the part played by officers of the Bank in the great war, 1914-1919 (n.d.], Volume 2<br /><br />http://archive.org/details/lettersfromfront02canaAnnette Fulfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11917837169496502052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-84191524526360154952012-05-08T14:55:55.881-04:002012-05-08T14:55:55.881-04:00Lorine,
There is a wonderful photo or Ira in the b...Lorine,<br />There is a wonderful photo or Ira in the book, Letters from the front; being a record of the part played by officers of the Bank in the Great War, 1914-1919 at the Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/lettersfromfront01canauoft . It was published by the Bank of Commerce in 1920.Annette Fulfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11917837169496502052noreply@blogger.com